The BMW M3 GT4 duo defied the odds to become the third different winning pair of the Intelligent Money-back💟🦋ed competition after three rounds.  

It also moves them seven-and-a-half-points clear of Beechdean Motorsport’s Andrew Howard and Ross Gunn and 2 Seas Motorsport’s Ian Loggie and Jules Gounon who are provisionally tied𒅌 for second.   

A visit to the top step of the podium seemed a remote poss๊ibility as Leung stared from eighteenth on the grid – a position tha♎t was determined by their Free Practice 2 times.  

That was due to Saturday’s qualifying session was🐟 abandoned by race stewards due to persistent rain and large areas of standing water around the Northamptonshire track.  

H🔴owever, strong stints by both Leung and Harper elevated them up the field and crucial overtakes by Harper in the closing stages – including the all-important move on Barwell Motorsport’s Sandy Mitchell through Brooklands – ledꦯ to wild celebrations in the pit garage as the latter took the chequered flag.   

“That was🌃 unreal – I can’t believe it to be honest considering how everything has gone all weekend,” said BMW M Works driver H𓂃arper, who is having a go at trying to win the British title for the first time.   

“I am just so happy for Darren and the team because it has been so much hard work all over the winter per🍌iod – we have tried so hard – and now we have th🃏e car in a really good window, it’s great to drive.   

“To start down in eighteenth and to go on and win it, I can’t beli🅷eve it to be hon🗹est – it was totally unexpected – but the car was flying and Darren drove brilliantly. In my last stint I tried to get as many overtakes done as I could and to win, I just can’t believe it. A massive thanks to Century and to BMW.    

“Bonkers is the best wor🌌d I can find to describe the day,” he added. “We knew we had the pace in the car and just needed the chance to show it. Darren, the team and BMW have done an amazing job.”

Harper and Leung’s reward for earning a breakthrough GT3 victory at the third round of the British GT Championship’s blue riband Silverstone 500 was gett൲ing their hands on the historic RAC Trophy.